Shadowing Practice: 日本の9月ってこんなかんじ Japanese Listening Practice N3・N2レベル【中級】Ep.723 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Hi, everyone.
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I'm Byte Size Japanese, what are you doing?
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It's a podcast that I'm going to talk to you by using a natural Japanese podcast.
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Today, we're going to talk about the month of the year.
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What do you think about the month of the year?
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9月って実はもう秋なんですね 日本では9、10、11月が秋で 1月、2月が冬で 3月、4月、5月が春で
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6月、7月、8月が夏なんですね そうなので9月は秋なんですけど Well, honestly, the last year is the summer.
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Every day 30 degrees of heat.
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Like, I'm going to get to the summer, but I'm going to get to the summer.
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I'm going to get to the summer, so I'm going to get to the summer.
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That's right.
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But it's actually in the winter, but it's a nice feeling of the weather.
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So, in the episode of the episode, the year of the year of the year, the year of the year of the year,
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the year of the year, Well, I'm going to give you my experience and I'm going to introduce you to all of you.
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I'm in Australia, but I'm in the year of the year,
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I'm in Japan, so I'm going to go to Japan.
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So, it's a little fun to see.
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Yeah, I think that in the year, the year in the year, the year in the year,
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the wind is a natural sound.
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The weather is a natural sound, so there are some of the winter, and the winter is a natural sound.
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In夏, maybe you know that, there is a bambu from the cemes.
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What can I see?
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It's about five centimeters.
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It's about 5 centimeters.
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It's about a lot of things that they have.
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In the February, or August, the cemes are The mimin's zemi.
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like, like, it's so gross.
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It's so gross.
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And, there are some trees that are in the middle of the tree.
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So, I think it's really gross.
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And, I think I was already living in 28 years, so I'm learning to get used to it.
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But my wife, Jack, is that the snake's voice is going to hear the snake's voice.
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And in the year of 9th, there's a little different snake's voice that can hear.
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It's a snake's voice that's a snake.
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That's the sound of the snake.
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It's a little bit more than that.
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I always feel like the snake is coming.
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There are many snakes in the morning.
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The snake is a little bit more than that.
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This is not easy to express the sound of the sound of the sea.
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It's a good sound of the sea.
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So, if you are interested in YouTube, I'm looking at the Japanese forest and the sound of the forest.
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I've been looking at a lot of the videos that I've been watching.
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I'm looking at the forest.
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I was living in Japan.
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I lived in the apartment.
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夏の夜はカエルの音で 窓開けると本当にうるさくて寝れないから窓閉めてました
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昼間はミミミミンだし本当にとにかくうるさかったです
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日本人って結構こういう音でなんか 季節を感じるんだよね 夏だったらこう 水の音とか あと
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風鈴の音を聞くと涼しく感じる 風鈴ってわかるかな えっと皆さんも多分ね聞いたことがあるはずなんだけど The wind is when it's a wind,
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and it's a little bit of a sound.
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It's a little bit of a sound.
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It's a little bit of a sound.
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It's a little bit of a sound.
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Yes.
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The wind is in the middle of the summer, the sky is like a sky.
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The winter sky is like a new dogm.
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There are a huge snowmose that can see.
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A new dogm.
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Like an ice cream.
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縦に大きくて白くて、その雲の中にクリームみたいな。 なんだろうな、とにかくでかい雲なんですね。 それが夏の雲。
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なんだけど、なんだけど、秋になると、 そういうでかい、モリモリしたような雲がなくなってきて、 薄い雲になる。
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薄い雲になる。 表現が難しいな。 空を見ても季節を感じるんですね。 だけど9月はまだ暑いし、あと台風も多いんだよね。
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子供の時はやっぱ9月は台風が多くて嬉しかった。
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台風が来ると学校が休みになったりするんだよね。 So, I heard that the weather is coming from the weather.
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I thought, I'm going to go to school.
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And, I think that the weather is less than the weather.
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But, it's because of the weather is going to be a bit of a weather.
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But, when it comes to the weather, it's going to be a bit of a weather.
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So, like, the wind is falling, and the wind is falling,
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and the wind is falling.
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And so, like, I think it's fun to be a kid.
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Like, I think it's always different.
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Like, I think it's a little bit more fun.
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I think it's really fun.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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The next year is the last year.
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The last year is the last year.
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The last year is the last year.
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The last year is the last year.
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I think it's a long time to feel like this is the day of the day.
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So, I think it's a little bit.
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I like it.
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I like it.
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I think it's more than a couple of times I feel like this
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And then maybe I feel like this was the one I think the one I think is Silver Week is available
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What did you think?
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Golden Week is probably the one I know It's been a week that's been in the first half of the day
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And then, in June, we have a silver week, which is a week that is about the week.
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So, in June, we have a week that is about the week that is about the week.
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So, I think that's the time when I travel to Japan, I think it's a lot of Japanese.
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Japan is a lot of fun.
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It's a lot of every month, 2 days.
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Golden Week or Silver Week, like, the holidays are going to be a lot of fun.
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It's a lot of fun.
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So, what are your countries' birthday?
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Do you know what you mean?
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I mean, I don't know.
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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But I think that it's not for a birthday, but I don't know if it's a birthday.
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I'm happy to go to a party.
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I'm not sure if it's a birthday.
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It's a birthday.
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And I'm going to introduce you to a podcast.
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I'm just looking at my notes.
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Next, what we'll talk about.
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I'm going to talk about the week.
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The week is about the week.
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It's about the week.
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It's about the week.
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It's about the week.
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It's about the week.
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But this day is the day of the day in Japan,
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the sun is the most東 from the north.
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And the interesting thing is that it is a secular country.
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And in the world of God,
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the holy of the family and the holy of the Holy of the dead are different in the world.
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And the world is more than a from the right I thought about it
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This is something that is looking at Right now
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I'm trying to look at that I'm trying to look at that I'm trying to look at the same You know,
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there's a place in the sky To come back And it's going to look at that So,
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in October, there is a place in the sky And this is the sky So, the place is in the middle of the night,
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and I'm going to go to the house of the house.
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The house is going to go to the house.
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The house is going to go to the house.
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The house is going to go to the house.
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That's why I was called the house.
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But I also had a lot of reasons for the year.
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I was also a little while at the time I had a family with my family.
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I was told that I was my mother of my father's father.
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I was a mother and mother and mother and mother It was a very good memory
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I had a lot of food and juice and juice
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and drive to the hotel And I went to the hotel to the墓 It was a picnic feeling
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皆さんはあの自分の 先祖のお墓とか行くチャンスありますか やっぱ最近の若い人はお墓参りに行かない人の方が多いんじゃないかな
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実は私もねその昔ずっとその大阪にあるお墓にね家族で行ってたんだけど
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My mother also died and my mother also died My mother died So,
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I was going to die the last year My mother died My mother died My mother died So,
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in Japan, there are a lot of land that has been on the ground.
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And there are a lot of stones that have been on the ground.
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It's just a little bit of a bone.
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It's a little bit of a袋.
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It's a little bit of a bone.
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So, I was able to make it so hard,
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and I was able to make it so hard.
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It was about 30 million dollars.
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And the stone is used in the house, but it has a name, because it is written in the name of the house.
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So, I'm going to come to the church from the temple, and the son of the congregation,
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and the soul of the family,
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and I'm going to go to the church with the spirit and the spirit.
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And then the石 on the company, and I got to go to the people who brought to the people.
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And it was like 30 million dollars.
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It was pretty difficult.
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Now, we have a new one.
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The most famous event is the one.
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The one.
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Everyone has a flower.
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I've heard that you've heard of it.
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The flower is in January, the flower tree is going to see the flower tree.
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The flower tree is going to see the flower tree.
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Sorry, the cat is crying.
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The cat is living in the house.
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It's called Border Collie.
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I'm not a child, but I'm not a child.
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It's a child that people walk through the front.
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It's a very good job.
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It's a child who is a child who is a child who is a child.
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I'm not a child.
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And the event is the most beautiful event that I saw in the beginning of the year.
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In the summer, there was a lot of vegetables and rice and rice to collect the time.
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So, I think that God has a lot of joy
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and a lot of fruit and vegetables are going to be able to eat.
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It's just that the people who are looking at the same time, is that it's an event that I can see.
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Honestly, I don't have a chance to celebrate the summer.
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I was like, I'm not going to be having a long time.
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I don't know if you're in the morning.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm not going to see you.
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I'm not going to see you.
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I'm not going to see you, so I don't know.
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I don't know if I'm not going to see you.
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I don't know.
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I don't know if you're in the days of the summer.
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I think it's a little bit more than the McDonald's.
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The McDonald's is a little bit more than the McDonald's.
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It's a little bit more than the hamburger.
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But there's a lot of things that are in the middle of the McDonald's.
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目玉焼きってわかるよね?
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目の形をした卵焼き。 卵をそのままフライパンで焼くと、白い卵の真ん中に黄色い丸い部分があるよね。
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That's because we are in a picture, which is a picture.
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But, I'm going to lay it on the side of my eyes.
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You can see the face like this, right?
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I can see the face like this.
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So, the eggs are in the hamburger, and the McDonald's are in the face like this.
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In September, the Facebook news is called TV and YouTube are a lot of流れます
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You can see the world's face The world's face is a face What do you think is that the world's face?
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The world's face is a face The world's face is a face The face is a face It's a face So,
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so, so I think it's different from different cultures and countries.
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I think it's different from all countries.
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I know that I know that I know that Australia is the same way that it's opposite.
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It's a way that it's opposite.
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And I was looking at the night, I thought it was so.
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I was wondering, so many people living in the place from the place.
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I was wondering, I thought it was different.
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And I was wondering, I was wondering,
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Australia and Japan are the same way from the sky.
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The sky is different from the sky.
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The sky is different from the sky.
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The sky is different from the sky.
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This was a weird place.
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I really noticed that I was surprised.
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That's why I was like, I don't know if I was a home for a home.
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I was thinking about it.
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If you come to Australia, So if you have a house in the middle of the house, you can buy a house in the middle of the house.
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So, so, the sun is in the middle of the night.
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This is a different way to the Japanese feeling.
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It's a different way to see the same way.
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Well, just the conversation changed, but...
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So, so, the月 is...
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You can see this year, so you can see it in the next year.
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Well, it's now in the next year.
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It's now in the next year, so it's just a little bit.
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It's now in the next year, so it's now in the next year.
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So, it's now in the next year.
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皆さん2026年は 今のところどんな感じどんな年ですか 私はねなんかオーストラリアの移住以外はなんか 正直特に何もなかった
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英語の勉強したかな頑張ったかな It's like a day that's the same.
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I've been so much to go to the airport.
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But it's a very good time.
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I've been learning a lot.
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But it's a bit difficult to do.
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So, it's been a year for 2026.
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I think it's been a year for 4 months.
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If you have a year for this year, I think it's been a year for 4 months.
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I think it's been a year for a year for a year.
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So, today we have a year for this year.
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I've been talking about the 9th of Japan in the last year, and I've talked about it.
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I've been talking about the last time.
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Thank you so much.
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I hope you enjoyed this video.
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Thank you so much.
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Bye bye.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “日本の9月ってこんなかんじ Japanese Listening Practice N3・N2レベル【中級】Ep.723”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: sky, sound, mother, weather, Japan. This video has 230 sentences and 2218 words to shadow. The speech runs for 24:55. The speaker talks slowly, about 89 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 86% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
flower noun/ˈfloʊɚ/A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens…
snake noun/sneɪk/Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptiles with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
gross adjective/ɡɹoʊs/remarkably great, big, vast in an often unpleasant way; (of behaviour) Highly or conspicuously offensive.
podcast noun/ˈpɑdˌkæst/A program, especially an audio program, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format and designed for playback on…
bone noun/boʊn/A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
introduce verb/ˌɪntɹəˈdus/To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else).
juice noun/d͡ʒuːs/A liquid made from plant, especially fruit.
vegetable noun/ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice…
egg noun/ɛɡ/An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, often housing an embryo within a membrane or shell…
temple noun/ˈtɛm.pl̩/A house of worship dedicated to a polytheistic faith.
collect verb/ˈkɑlɪkt/To gather together; amass.
secular adjective/ˈsɛkjʊlə/Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.
congregation noun/ˌkɑŋɡɹəˈɡeɪʃən/The act of congregating or collecting together.
picnic noun/ˈpɪknɪk/An informal social gathering, usually in a natural outdoor setting, to which the participants bring their own food and drink.
bamboo noun/bæmˈbu/Any of the fast-growing grasses of the Bambusoideae subfamily, characterized by its woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordMeaning
come back verbTo return to a place.
walk through verbTo explain (something) to (someone), step by step.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

  • What do you think about the month of the year?
  • What can I see?
  • I'm looking at the forest.
  • I thought, I'm going to go to school.
  • Do you know what you mean?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

StructureIn the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going onI've been looking · I've been learning · I've been talking
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters nowIt's been · has been · have been
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does itwas called · was told · is written
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thingweek, which is · people who brought · people who are

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 62 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like flower, snake, gross.

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